[ale] Slackware 8.1

George Johnson gljay at netzero.net
Mon Jul 15 23:56:45 EDT 2002








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Arial'>For some reason the sound card was not detected or installed when I
installed Slackware.  How does one
go about finding a driver for SoundBlaster Live sound cards as SoundBlaster
does not have one on their website? 
I am currently getting errors when Xwindows starts up.

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<font size=2 color=black
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Arial'>Error while initializing sound driver

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Device /dev/dsp  can’t be
opened (no such device)

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Sound server will continue using the null output device

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<font size=2 color=black
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